Continents

Countries are mapped to continents using data from the United Nations Statistics Division. You can see the actual mapping used by the API here.

Filter by continent

There are three ways to use continent filters:

Available values for the <continent> filter are:

Group by continent

You can group by continent.

• Group institutions by continent https://api.openalex.org/institutions?group-by=continent

Response:

{
  key: "Q46",
  key_display_name: "Europe",
  count: 41382
},
{
  key: "Q49",
  key_display_name: "North America",
  count: 37458
},
{
  key: "Q48",
  key_display_name: "Asia",
  count: 20432
}...

Groups are available in these endpoints: